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Page created: 18th November 1996 Last updated: 27th December 2007
The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Slovenia - Communities, part 5 (Gra-Idr)

• Grad +
• Grosuplje °
  • Grosuplje, 198x – 1992?
• Hajdina +
• Hoče-Slivnica +
• Hodoš +
  • Hodoš-Šalovci, 1995 – 1998 *
• Horjul +
• Hrastnik °
  • Hrastnik, 198x – 199x
• Hrpelje-Kozina *
• Idrija °

Legend:
° communities formed before 1990's
* communities formed in 1995
+ communities formed in 1998
M civic communities since 1998

• Slovenia - Communities
• Slovenia

Grad

Flag unknown.

Until the end of 2005 the community still did not adopt its symbols. When necessery the community uses the historical coat of arms of Széchy family who ruled the city since 14th century.

Grosuplje

1:2

The coat of arms of modern design divided per fess chief Azure base par pale Vert and Gules overall a Horse Head Sable. The flag is white-green-white triband with the coat of arms in the middle. In the vertical varsion it is set in the lower part of it. The horse head motive is based on a beautiful lead swastika ornament with horse heads of the late Hallstatt culture (5th century BCE). The metal ornament was found near Grosuplje (on Magdalenska gora). The design was chosen as it also represents Grosuplje as important transport station (once carriage station, today also important stop for road transport). The horse head also simulates the letter G. The colours used in the coat of arms represent: green - Dolenjska region (lower Slovenia), red - activity and development.
The previously reported flag that had yellow stripe instead of green and the coat of arms in the centre of the flag seems to have been misreported.

Grosuplje, 198x – 1992?

No flag.

The coat-of-arms-like emblem used by Grosuplje pictured a green bordered white shield with a ruined tower on a green hill made of rings. Around the shield was inscribed the name of the community.

Hajdina

2:5

The coat of arms pictures Indo-Iranian (latter Roman) deity Mithras wearing black sandals clad in yellow and with yellow hood holding on his back a white ox by the back legs. The flag is yellow with green Slovenian cross - the cross design typical for the Slovenian municipal flags. In the square field of the cross is the attribute from the coat of arms - Mithras carrying an oxen.
The Mithraic cult was much spread in the margins of Roman Empire and held for long when the centers took over Christianity, the two religions having much ethic concepts in common.

Hoče-Slivnica

2:5

The coat of arms is Argent in base of a Mount Vert a Wheel issuant from which is rising a chestnut sapling leaved all Or. The flag is yellow with a green square field in the middle with the semi-wheel and branch from the coat of arms. The symbols represent the Pohorje mountains (green hill), importance of the region as a road-crossing (railroad wheel) and nature and tradition (chestnut tree).

Hodoš

Hodoš – Hodos

2:5

The coat of arms is per pale azure and vert by a halberd argent and in base per chevron embowed gules fimbriated of the third three oak leaves or and overall a rose silver bordered golden with a emanating heart gules ensigned a cross sable. The flag is green square at hoist bearing the white halberd and five lengthwise white and green stripes in the fly.

Hodoš is one of the few communities in Slovenia that has considerable Hungarian population, and Hungarian language (and flag) is official in use in the community.

Hodoš-Šalovci, 1995 – 1998

Hodoš-Šalovci – Hodos-Šalovci

The community did not adopt any symbols in its brief existence.

Horjul

2:5

The coat of arms is azure on a mount vert a church argent behind fortified walls roofed gules. The same attribute appears in the middle square of a blue flag with white broken stripe.

Hrastnik

2:5

The coat of arms is Argent, from a base Sable growing an Oak tree Gules with three leaves Vert. The flag is divided vertically in green-white-green, and in the white square field containing the leaved eradicated oak tree from the coat of arms in the middle.
The symbols are canting Slovenian word for Oak hrast, the rich mineral wealth of the region is shown with the black ground, and the revolutionary past is remembered with the red tree trunk.

Hrastnik, 198x – 199x

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Hrastnik was adopted in the style of the time, showing emblems of the main industries of the region - mining and glasswork. The yellow field reminds on the letter H. The chief includes a red five-pointed star and the name of the community. With the independance the chief was deleted, and in 1992 the emblem was adapted for use on the licence plates, but was then soon replaced with the current more heraldic design.

Hrpelje-Kozina

2:5

The coat of arms is Vert over a Saltire Argent a Railway Wheel Sable. The flag is virtually a banner of arms being green with white saltire and a wheel in the middle. The flag for vertical and horizontal hoisting exactly the same in design, which is somewhat unusual among Slovenian communal flags. The symbolic of the emblems is described in the Decision as standing for the prosperity of the areas of the community and the crossings of the important transport routes. The wheel stands for the routes, Andrew's cross for geographic position of the community between three important Northern Adriatic ports and railway and roads connecting them. The white is for the karst region (Mali Kras), the green for nature and mountains of Brkini and Ćićarija.

Idrija

The coat of arms pictures Roman god Mercury shown as a messenger with wings on legs and holding caduceus on a white shield. The flag is derived from the colours used on the coat of arms, red over yellow over grey that are called cinnabar red, golden yellow and quicksilver white. The last one refers to mercury mined in Idria since middle ages. The ratio of the flag is not determined and it is used in vertical version in even longer versions.

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